Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship.

Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual citizenship, Cruz said in a statement. Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but Im an American by birth and as a U.S. senator; I believe I should be only an American.

SNIP

Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth, because I left Calgary when I was 4 and have lived my entire life since then in the U.S., and because I have never taken affirmative steps to claim Canadian citizenship, I assumed that was the end of the matter, Cruz said.

Quite the conundrum. Is he or is he not naturalized? If he is not and it goes to SCOTUS, will the dikes, Kennedy, and Roberts say he is because of obama’s situation? Libs are going to be pretty butt hurt about this!

I still don’t think he should be qualified for Presidency. I really wish the rule was both parents MUST be born in the United States and the individual must be born in the United States. None of this naturalization business. We have 300+ million people in the United States and have only had 45 people as President and we can’t have strict rules for being President? I would not even mind having the Grandparents be ONLY born in the United States, but in this liberal world that would NEVER pass.

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posted on 08/19/2013 6:31:28 PM PDT
by napscoordinator
( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)

Cruz has never been naturalized because he has been an American citizen since birth.

Cruz’s situation is not comparable to Soetoro’s because:

1) Soetoro’s mother did not meet the legal conditions for transmitting citizenship to Soetoro at birth. Cruz’s mother did meet the legal conditions for transmitting citizenship to her child.

2) Other than being the son of Frank Marshall Davis, Soetoro’s only chance of being an American citizen at birth was being born in the U.S. Since Soetoro’s “birth certificate” is a rank forgery, his “birth” in “Hawaii” is not established.

3) Soetoro was registered in school in Indonesia as an Indonesian. Soetoro reportedly claimed Indonesian citizenship when applying to Occidental. There are no comparable shady dealings in Cruz’s biography.

I have read all the stuff about the LAW OF NATIONS. All interesting. But there is no unambiguous proof that the term “natural born citizen” as used in the Constitution was intended to be NARROWER than “citizen at birth.” I.e., a person who never needed to be NATURALIZED.

The big difference between Soetoro and Cruz is that Cruz is indubitably a citizen, while Soetoro is very likely an illegal alien.

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posted on 08/19/2013 6:37:27 PM PDT
by Arthur McGowan
(If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)

Oh please do not tell me that for the first time since 2005, we are going to disagree about a possible candidate. First of all he is a one term Senator (he has been in his seat for a whole 8 months) who was not born in the United States......

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posted on 08/19/2013 6:50:01 PM PDT
by napscoordinator
( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)

Cruz was born outside of America. No one disputes this. I do not want someone born outside of America as my president, even if it is Cruz. Why open the door?

The first Congress and President Washington opened that door with the Naturalization Act of 1790: "And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens"

He is good at that. The only worry I have besides the whole birth thing (which in the general would not be an issue for me and I would RUN to the polling place to vote for him) is that we have had so many “perfect and popular” conservatives who were our “go to guy” for the Presidency only to be extremely disappointed in the person later. Not sure if this will be the case, but we have seen a ton of good people on their best behavior for the first years in office only to do a 180 soon after.

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posted on 08/19/2013 7:01:42 PM PDT
by napscoordinator
( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)

How old was your mother when she gave birth? How long did she live in the United States? Did she meet the requirements AT THE TIME to confer citizenship to a baby born on foreign territory to a non-citizen daddy? If not, when were you naturalized?

And unfortunately for you being born outside the geographic United States sovereign boundary you fail Article II, Sec. 1 of Constitution in regards to unique Natural Born Citizenship requirement for Presidency.

How old was your mother when she gave birth? How long did she live in the United States? Did she meet the requirements AT THE TIME to confer citizenship to a baby born on foreign territory to a non-citizen daddy? If not, when were you naturalized?

And unfortunately for you being born outside the geographic United States sovereign boundary you fail Article II, Sec. 1 of Constitution in regards to unique Natural Born Citizenship requirement for Presidency.

These days... it's either Texas secedes and we all go there... or we all become Hockey players, Lumberjacks or prostitutes (are there really any other professions in Canada?) and move north, FreeStateProject style and try for USA2 there.

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